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Re:Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers by adamsea on Monday November 27, 2017 @11:38AM (#15788606)
> If you're in the top 1% or 0.1% intellectually

How are you measuring this? Are you equating being at an elite institution or have a (currently) rare and valuable skillset with intellect?

And/or are you reducing 'intellect' in this post to only mean logical/mathematical prowess?

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Re:Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers by marvin on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:11PM (#15788934)
A relatively high proportion of students at elite schools will be in the top 1% of the IQ distribution (and the same is probably true of HN contributors), but I don't think you have to interpret this literally for GP's post to be clear. Intellect, like driving skill, can be measured along enough axes that more than 1% can be in the top 1%.
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